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More than £4,500 that was raised at the lunch will be sent to help the 420,000 Rohingya Muslims as they currently are at risk of violence. The refugees are living without food and children are in urgent need of medicines as well.

Naisha Hussain and her mother Nasreen Akhtar, who organised a fundraising lunch in aid of the Rohingya crisis in Burma

Nasreen Akhtar has been volunteering and raising money for charity for nearly 30 years.

She said: “This year we have raised even more money than we have before. It was a very successful lunch and each volunteer made the produce that was on sale.

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Said Hansdot at the fundraising lunch in aid of the Rohingya crisis in Burma, at the Friendship Cafe, in Chequers Bridge Centre, Painswick Road.

“Everybody bought the ingredients out of their own money to make the dishes so then all of the money that was made went straight to the fundraiser. I am very pleased with how well it went and the amount of money raised.”